I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.